As if the rewards accumulated over the last few months were not enough, Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 adds another symbolically very powerful recognition to his palmarès: he was the most completed game of 2025 according to data published by HowLongToBeat. A confirmation that goes beyond the critics’ votes and speaks directly of the relationship between the work of Sandfall Interactive and his audience.
According to HowLongToBeat, over 8,000 users have marked Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as “complete,” with more than a thousand players still actively engaged in the campaign. Numbers which, despite being based on a specific and self-selected community, tell very clearly what type of experience the game is: engaging, readable, capable of sustaining attention until the end credits.
The complete ranking of the most completed titles of 2025 is, in some ways, surprising and fascinating. Immediately behind we find Hollow Knight: Silksongfollowed by Donkey Kong Bananza, Doom: The Dark Ages e Dispatch. Completing the top ten are names such as Monster Hunter Wilds, Silent Hill f e Hades 2demonstrating an extremely varied year for the gaming scene.
Interestingly, notoriously challenging games like Silksong still managed to achieve such high completion rates. A clear signal: difficulty is not a deterrent when the design is solid and the narrative or playful motivation is strong.
In parallel, HowLongToBeat also published the list of the most “abandoned” titles, led by Persona 5: The Phantom X e Delta Forcedemonstrating how thin the line is between an experience that captures and one that repels.
At the end of the day, the primacy of Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 as the most completed game of the year says perhaps more than any other award: not only was it celebrated, but it was lived to the fullest. And today, in the videogame market, it is a result that is anything but obvious.
